
every piglin in a fifty mile radius turning aggro when my dogshit thirty durability golden boots shatter because i jumped off a one block incline
I get how the whole “listening to music as a dick-measuring contest for who can listen to the most obscure band” thing can get grating sometimes but I don’t think people realize just how vital that phenomenon is for new up and coming bands to get a foot in the door. it’s understandable to be annoyed by hipsterism but unless you want all music to be industry plants and former child stars you’re just going to have to accept it as part of the social ecosystem.
most of your friends probably won’t go around hyping up your amateurish self-released bandcamp project, but you know who will? the most insufferable hipster jackass you’ll ever meet.
[your best friend playing your music in front of someone else]: yeah haha this is my friend’s band… i know it’s kinda weird and rough around the edges but i’m kinda into it… if you’re not tho i’ll turn it off.
[pretentious music guy you’ve never met before playing your music in front of someone else]: yeah so i found this on bandcamp and it completely blew me away, no one is making music like this today, it’s so raw and experimental and interesting, i can’t believe they only have 3 listeners on spotify, they’re brilliant, frankly if you don’t like this music you should kill yourself,
I logged into my alliance toon for the first time in months and see a dead Mario and Luigi in Stormwind
[ID: Tweet by Justin Boyles @boyleslab on Twitter made on May 31, 2020 that reads: Bats provide a whole bunch of services. There is zero evidence suggesting suppression of mosquito populations is one of those services.
Tweet 2 is by AJ Kash @Akaszubsk made on May 31, 2020 that reads: Tell us more!
Tweets 3-13 are a thread by Justin Boyles @boyleslab made on May 31, 2020 that read: Sure. This will take a thread. First, we’ve long known some bats eat some mosquitoes. Old methods (looking at poop) suggests they eat very few. Newer methods (DNA techniques) suggest they eat more, but still not many. (1/10)
No bat gets close to a diet completely of mosquitoes, and it’s unlikely any can. Big bats have a hard time finding and catching mosquitoes and don’t get enough energy for their effort. (2/10)
Small bats can find and catch mosquitoes, but mosquitoes carry a lot of water that is very heavy for a small bat to carry. (3/10)
Whether or not bats eat mosquitoes sort of misses the point though. Population suppression is a high bar and no study has even gotten close to demonstrating it. Here’s why population suppression is probably unlikely: (4/10)
Bats tend to be generalist feeders (mostly) and eat prey opportunistically. If they did find themselves in an area with a high mosquito density, they would likely eat them. Let’s assume they even decrease the density a bit. (5/10)
As the population of mosquitoes thin out, it’s quite likely the bats would switch to a more energetically profitable prey items. There is no logical reason to assume bats would keep eating a non-preferred prey item as they became rare. (6/10)
It’s also likely that sustained predation from bats could cause an increase in reproduction in mosquitoes (compensatory reproduction). Population dynamics are complicated and predation from bats does note equal population control. (7/10)
Suppression is really hard to show. Even if we find a bat that eats 100% mosquitoes, it does not demonstrate suppression. Demonstrating predation by bats is the first of many necessary steps, but it certainly isn’t sufficient. (8/10)
No study ever published has even attempted to demonstrate suppression, and I’m not even sure how you would set up an experiment to do so. It would be groundbreaking if someone can pull it off. (9/10)
That means claims that bats are good for human health because they may eat mosquitoes are nothing more than wishful thinking. There is zero evidence to support that claim. (10/10) /End ID]
studio trigger’s dungeon meshi fears
- laios not sexy enough
- reduced senshi panty shots
- they give marcille a feminine voice
- winged lion breast reduction
Plucked kabru’s eyelashes no eyeliner nightmare realm
skinny falin
Gonna being your post to the ts fandom I hope you have a horrible day!
(Not really i just am very autistic and consider this white woman to be my special interest. I realize she's not everyone's thing but she'll never see those posts but the people who actively enjoy her and do so to cope with trauma will. So like. What's the harm in liking popular white lady lol)
I hope you have a lovely evening and you see something pretty
i’m sorry is this about taylor fucking swift
People will spend hours watching “ending explained” videos and reading about how Ed, Edd, n Eddy is set in purgatory or some such barmy nonsense, but the moment you tell them a piece of media was motivated by racism or corporate interest in affecting public opinion or the Pentagon’s funding suddenly you’re reading too much into it.
I feel like people have heard about the time Bram Stoker sent his tinder bio to Walt Whitman but haven’t actually read the tinder bio so in honor of Dracula Daily’s return (and me finding my copy of Dracula that actually had the correspondence between Bram Stoker and Walt Whitman), here’s Bram Stoker’s pass at Walt Whitman:
I am not Shelley and you are not Godwin and so I will only hope that sometime I may meet you face to face and perhaps shake hands with you If I ever do it will be one of the greatest pleasures of my life. If you care to know who it is that writes this, my name is Abraham Stoker (Junior). My friends call me Bram. I live at 43 Harcourt St, Dublin. I am a clerk in the service of the Crown on a small salary. [’How did I get the impression that he was still in college?’] I am twenty-four years old. Have been champion at our athletic sports (Trinity College, Dublin) and have won about a dozen cups. I have also been President of the College Philosophical Society and an art and theatrical critic of a daily paper. I am six feet two inches high and twelve stone weight naked and used to be forty-one or forty-two inches round the chest. I am ugly but strong and determined and have a large bump over my eyebrows. I have a heavy jaw and a big mouth and thick lips - sensitive nostrils - a snubnose and straight hair. I am equal in temper and cool in disposition and have a large amount of self control and am naturally secretive to the world. I take a delight in letting people I don’t like - people of mean or cruel or sneaking or cowardly disposition - see the worst side of me. I have a large number of acquaintances and some five or six friends - all of which latter body care much for me. Now I have told you all I know about myself. [’And a mighty graphic picture it is too: I seem to see you not as in a glass darkly but as in the broad day lightly: I do, I do!’]
Bram Stoker originally penned this in 1872, but only sent it to Walt Whitman along with a second letter in 1876 after attending a meeting at Dublin’s Fortnightly Club, where he had, in his words, participated in a “hot debate” over Whitman’s poetic “genius”
For the full letter and other gay Dracula drama, check out “Something in the Blood” by David J. Skal, an explicitly queer biography of Bram Stoker and his writing of Dracula, as well as his complicated acquaintanceship with Oscar Wilde.














